The Jam / Setting Sons box set

Universal Music will reissue The Jam‘s fourth album Setting Sons as a 3CD+DVD super deluxe box set in November.
The 1979 album is remastered from the original analogue tapes and the first disc adds single edits and B-sides.

Amongst the 22-tracks on the second audio disc are 14 previously unreleased demos and alternates, along with 4 tracks from the 1979 John Peel session.

CD 3 brings Live in Brighton 1979, a live performance that has never been previously issued. The 20-song set features Setting Sons in almost its entirety.

The fourth and final disc in this Setting Sons box is a DVD that provides all the promo videos along with TV appearances including six Top Of The Pops performances.

The discs come in a 72-page hardcover book with the usual selection of photos and images of period memorabilia. New interviews and essays also features. Prints and replica tour brochure and fan club magazine are also included and the book and contents reside in a outer slipcase.

06 Strange Town (BBC Top Of The Pops, London / March 1979) 3:40
07 Strange Town (BBC Top Of The Pops, London / April 1979) 3:51
08 When You’re Young (BBC Top Of The Pops, London / 1979) 2:20
09 The Eton Rifles (BBC Top Of The Pops, London / 1st November 1979) 2:40
10 The Eton Rifles (BBC Top Of The Pops, London / 15th November 1979) 2:36
11 Going Underground (BBC Top Of The Pops, London / March 1980) 2:54

I’m still an avid disc buyer but I concur…price is absurd! The labels keep shooing themselves in the foot. I know they want to squeeze every last dollar out of those of us that will keep buying the newest incarnation of the same material but this is gauging.

I’d like this, but they can stick it, at those sorts of prices… There’s really no need for ‘prints’ and replica programmes; I guarantee they’re the sort of thing you glance at, and file away..
3CDs, plus DVD, with an informative 72 page booklet (no need for it to be hardcover!) and a RRP of £30 – £35 and I’m in…

Fabulous album, ridiculous price. I refuse to get drawn into this market for album casts offs, demos and live tracks at these prices. Weller should look at bands he ridicules like Tears for Fears, before ripping off his very loyal fan base. The 60 odd audio tracks can be downloaded on iTunes for £25 if that helps anyone.

Give it time. The box set will find its true price, depending on customer demand – if fans are unwilling to pay the price (as with early Super Deluxe editions), it will fall. The Gift eventually came down to the £40-50 price range (a more sensible price for a box set such as this). Even HMV are currently selling limited copies of The Who’s Tommy Super Deluxe at £50 in store.

Will just have to wait until it goes on sale at Pop Market or some other such place. That big super deluxe version of The Gift was also super deluxe expensive–but I finally got it when someone offered it for about half of the original price. (Same with the recent Beatles Mono vinyl box, and the Sex Pistols super deluxe Never Mind the Bollocks…)

As only disc two has anything of interest to me I’ll hang on for this one. The price, as mentioned quite rightly already, is on the outside of stupid. I think I’ve got most of the rest of this set, as a huge Jam fan… And if I don’t have the exact gig here I know I have at least one similar soundboard from that tour, if not more. I’ll pass until the price comes down. Then I’ll do what I always do where The Jam is concerned… and buy!

How’s it going DaveDogFaceBoy? I don’t think the second CD in the ‘Deluxe’ version includes the demos/alternative takes – it’s a London Rainbow Theatre live show that was previously available as part of ‘The Jame at the BBC’…

I think someone has forgotten The Jam performed Going Underground twice on Top Of The Pops. The first time with Weller wearing an apron. The second time on the Christmas show where Weller is playing his pop art guitar, a much cooler looking performance. The DLT intro can be edited out!

It’s their greatest record. But…the Universal Music Boxset Store (http://store.universal-music.co.uk/euro/the-jam-setting-sons-cd-2014/invt/0602537946952) seems to indicate that the second disc included in the affordable two-disc ‘Deluxe’ version is the same London Rainbow Theatre live show that was previously available with the limited edition ‘The Jam at the BBC’ collection. Which means stumping up £100 if you want the demos/alternative takes and the previously unavailable Brighton live show. If that’s right, and please someone correct me if I’m wrong, then I can’t help feel this is a terribly cynical treatment of what should be a joyous expanded reissue…

Agree regarding the price for the super deluxe box set. Ridiculous.
Love The Jam…..have done so since 1978…..this price is just the record companies trying to squeeze every penny….but as a few have said, they are only shooting themselves in the foot.
Long live the affordable Jam!

Just had the two disc version delivered from Amazon UK, which when I ordered it all the evidence was pointing to the demo disc as disc two. It’s actually got the live at the Rainbow set which I already own on the BBC set. What’s that all about? I want the demo’s etc, not a bloody live concert I already have and never listen too. Perhaps someone at UMC/Polydor can explain how this is not fleecing me?

I was tempted to buy from Amazon. But track list put me off. US fans want the demos and stuff not a live CD almost similar to the one with live at the BBC. This is setting sons but seems like an ALL MOD CON to me. Very disappointed, Weller what’s up?

I’ve just bought the 2cd deluxe from Amazon UK and the auto-rip was for the super deluxe. So I got the album with bonus tracks and live at the Rainbow ,the demos and the Brighton concert all for £12.99.

I have just ordered the 2 disc set from Amazon (even though I have the SE BBC set) and it came with the autorip feature which gives you an MP3 download of the album; this MP3 download is the three discs of the Super Deluxe Edition – BONUS.